AFTERSOUNDS ø Muzikos ruduo / Baltic Music Days 2025

On October 15, at 7 p.m., the “Cello Club” ensemble‘s programme AFTERSOUNDS at the Energy and Technology Museum marks the collaboration between the festival MUSIC AUTUMN („Muzikos ruduo“) and the BALTIC MUSIC DAYS festival, and takes on an international dimension.

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Specifically for the MUSIC AUTUMN, the ensemble “Cello Club” presents a programme of five brand-new works of contemporary music, all united by a focus on sound as an autonomous medium of aesthetic perception. Here, music is not subordinated to narrative or image – it becomes a generator of meaning in itself, shaping the listener’s experience not through representation but through direct acoustic phenomenology.

The festival theme – intermediality – is interpreted in this programme as an inner expansion of the sound medium, arising not through explicit interdisciplinary references but through the relation of sound, as a structure of experience, to space, the body, and the listener’s state of consciousness. Sound becomes not only a channel of transmission but an independent medium of transformation – a “medium” in its own right.

“Cello Club” is a collective of professional musicians bringing together members of the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestra, the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra, and other leading ensembles. The group’s members – Rokas Vaitkevičius, Povilas Jacunskas, Evaldas Petkus, Domas Jakštas, and Arnas Kmieliauskas – are known not only for their mastery but also for their ability to fuse elements of classical and contemporary music. Within the ensemble, each musician can take the role of leader, creative driving force, or soloist, making their programmes a celebration of surprises and stylistic diversity.

PROGRAMME

Wednesday, 15 October, 7:00 PM
The Energy and Technology Museum

AFTERSOUNDS
Cello Club

CONCERT PROGRAMME

Jonas Jurkūnas | Evidentiality (2025, premiere)

Kristupas Bubnelis | Grotta (2025, premiere)

Helena Tulve ( Estonia) | Und von liehte vinster (2025, premiere)

Santa Bušs (Latvia) | From Affectionate to Zealous (2023, premiere)

Anna Korsun (Ukraine) | Spettri (2023)

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This year, the Festival MUSIC AUTUM („Muzikos ruduo“) is joining forces with BALTIC MUSIC DAYS, a festival held annually in a different Baltic country.

This year's festival theme, MEANING TRANSFORMATIONS, invites us to look at intermediality and explore various forms of meaning transformation, observe the process of change itself, and discover how a whole new field of meanings opens up depending on the medium.

The theme was not chosen at random: in 2025, we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of M. K. Čiurlionis' birth. In his work, music and painting intertwined synesthetically, creating one of the most striking examples of how different artistic languages can extend and transform each other.

Organized by: VšĮ Muzikos ruduo
Funded by: Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality
Strategic partners: Lithuanian Composers' Union, Baltic Contemporary Music Network
Information partners: LRT, Latvijas Radio 3 – Klasika, Klaasika Raadio

Partners:
Energy and Technology Museum, Kablys, Lithuanian Music Information Center, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, Latvian Composers' Union, Estonian Composers' Union, Estonian Cultural Council, GoVilnius.

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